The Smarty Pants Gang
Notwithstanding the caterwauling about the disloyal conservatives who have broken ranks with the President over the Miers nomination, the real trouble will begin when the hearing process frames up a key democratic theme: President Bush is just too stupid to undertake the job of President.
A favorite liberal schema is that conservatives are just too stupid for high office. Panting, the left instructed that Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, Clarence Thomas, were all mindlessly idiotic. And this same drumbeat has been pounded with even greater ferocity as to George W. Bush.
But now the "He's too stupid" caucus has some new, distinguished members. In a recent interview, former U.S. Circuit Judge Robert Bork complained that President Bush does not have particularly profound insights into constitutional law or the discernment to detect these qualities in others; a point as to which David Frum joined on C-SPAN's Washington Journal. "He's not a lawyer, and just doesn't think that way," explained Frum – who is a former Bush aide.
The Miers nomination process glues conservatives in the intellectual cross-hairs and Democrats are eager to show how feeble-minded Miers and her patrons are today. Persecutor-in-Chief, Charles Schummer, emerged from his meetings with Miers yesterday to declare: "On many [questions], she wouldn't give answers. On many others, she deferred, saying 'I need to sort of bone up on this a little more, I need to come to conclusions.'"
Because stupid is as stupid does, this is certain to grow worse.
A favorite liberal schema is that conservatives are just too stupid for high office. Panting, the left instructed that Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, Clarence Thomas, were all mindlessly idiotic. And this same drumbeat has been pounded with even greater ferocity as to George W. Bush.
But now the "He's too stupid" caucus has some new, distinguished members. In a recent interview, former U.S. Circuit Judge Robert Bork complained that President Bush does not have particularly profound insights into constitutional law or the discernment to detect these qualities in others; a point as to which David Frum joined on C-SPAN's Washington Journal. "He's not a lawyer, and just doesn't think that way," explained Frum – who is a former Bush aide.
The Miers nomination process glues conservatives in the intellectual cross-hairs and Democrats are eager to show how feeble-minded Miers and her patrons are today. Persecutor-in-Chief, Charles Schummer, emerged from his meetings with Miers yesterday to declare: "On many [questions], she wouldn't give answers. On many others, she deferred, saying 'I need to sort of bone up on this a little more, I need to come to conclusions.'"
Because stupid is as stupid does, this is certain to grow worse.
posted by E.L. Lipman | 10/18/2005 07:42:00 AM
It takes especially smart people to think up stuff like Roe vs. Wade or Kelo or deciding that people get to choose which bathroom they should use based on their own view of what sex they are.
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